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Title:
Male beauty : postwar masculinity in theater, film, and physique magazines / Kenneth Krauss.
Author:
Krauss, Kenneth, 1948- author.
Publication Information:
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

©2014
Call Number:
P96 .M385 K83 2014B
Abstract:
Examines how masculinity was presented and perceived after World War II.
ISBN:
9781438450001
Physical Description:
viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Seeing through The glass menagerie: the emerging specter of male beauty -- Dangerous male beauty and the masculine style: regular and irregular guys in Tea and sympathy -- Albee's untold story: the aftermath of male youth and beauty -- Complicated masculinity: the beauty of Montgomery Clift -- Doing and undoing masculinity: the early performances of Marlon Brando -- Beauty forever young: the brief career of James Dean -- All about Dick: physique magazines and the career of Richard Harrison -- As beauty does: the retreating Dr. Bishop -- Johnny, we hardly knew ye: male sex, sexuality, and gender.
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